Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] offers no evidence. The centrepiece of the book is a version of the thesis that the oil price rise in 1973/4 was the result of the 1973 Bilderberg meeting. In The Observer of 14 January 2002 Greg Palast quoted former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani to the effect that minutes of a secret meeting […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] Baden-Baden in Germany. From the context this is 1989. (Bower is vague on the details.) I think this is wrong. Brown met Clinton when both attended the Bilderberg meeting at Baden-Baden in 1991. At that meeting Brown and Clinton were both young politicians, possibly the next President of the US and a future British […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Alresford (Hampshire), John Hunt Publishing, 2004, pb, £11.99 Another massive reworking of the basic elements of the post-WW2 American-oriented global conspiracy theory: Rothschild, Quigley, Fabians, CFR, Bilderberg, Masons etc. Hagger makes much of Bilderberg (perhaps simply because there is so much material to use) and his particular contribution to the genre […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] agreement is illustrated by the 1980 Holly Sklar book, Trilateralism. This is still the best single volume of the elite management groups, chiefly the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg. In 1980 that was a left issue: Jimmy Carter had been in the Trilateral Commission and what was then a section of the American New Left […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] this century. Further, while John Smith was spurning the skills of Mr Mandelson and wooing the money-lenders he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, in the inner circle;(2) and Bilderberg has been one of the leading forums promoting the transnational, American-dominated New World Order which is now wrecking the […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] one or two on his time at St Antony’s College (as a ‘parliamentary fellow’). There is also a section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly or not […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become ‘contaminated’ by the interest in it taken by the US Right.(1) I had never thought of it as that, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] of sites, left, right and simply conspiratorial. They all quote the same paragraph and same year, 1991, but they vary on the forum: some have Rockefeller addressing Bilderberg, some the Trilateral Commission. (The reference to forty years in the quote tells you that it is meant to be Bilderberg; the Trilateral Commission was formed […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] in original) This comment was in a letter which accompanied a Western Goals’s Viewpoint paper, Hit-job on Margaret Thatcher, which traced Mrs Thatcher’s troubles to the 1989 Bilderberg meeting in Spain and her refusal to endorse the plans for an independent European Central Bank.Western Goals, now defunct, were of some interest as the bearers […]